Managerial Ethics as a Prerequisite to CSR: The Person Behind the Role

Rozuel, Cécile; Kakabadse, Nada K.

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“…Although not discussed with the same frequency as the social expectations related to a given role, roles often involve moral expectations as well (Downie, 1968; Rozuel & Kakabadse, 2011). This point is widely accepted, but there is a debate about how exactly the ethical component of a job role should be characterized.…”

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

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Am I Expected to Be Ethical? A Role-Definition Perspective of Ethical Leadership and Unethical Behavior

Paterson

Huang

2018

Journal of Management

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Prior studies have demonstrated that leaders’ ethical behaviors have an impact on followers’ unethical behaviors, and yet the explanatory mechanisms in this relationship have not been fully explored. To further explicate the relationship between ethical leadership and unethical employee behavior, we adopted a role-based perspective and introduced the concept of role ethicality. That is, we explored the impact that leaders’ actions and voice behaviors, particularly regarding ethical issues, have on perceptions of ethical role requirements and in turn the effect such perceptions have on unethical behavior. In a field study involving 394 employees and 68 supervisors and a randomized experiment conducted with 121 working professionals, we find that as predicted, leaders’ behaviors and ethical voice have a significant influence on role ethicality, which in turn impacts unethical behavior. Based on our empirical findings, we describe the implications, limitations, and future directions relevant to this study.

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Am I Expected to Be Ethical? A Role-Definition Perspective of Ethical Leadership and Unethical Behavior

Paterson

Huang

2018

Journal of Management

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“…Carroll (2002) argued that managers promote moral values in the company through their chief position of power and beliefs of exemplarity. Moreover, the corporation enforces more expectations on managers to be role models as their position in the organizational hierarchy increases (Rozuel & Kakabadse, 2011). Literature suggests that business ethics is ethics governing the conduct of organizational behaviour but it is an individual-level construct as it comes from the managers governing organizations.…”

Section: Organizational Needs -Csr At the Meso Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Expectations like companies should be ethical and socially responsible are not new even though the general public has been recently talking a lot about these issues (Idowu, 2011). Moral misconduct is still taking place in corporations and business scandals seem to replicate despite the various discussions about business ethics and its importance in increasing sustainable development and despite ample vigorous lobbying to include stakeholders' issues into strategic management and to give more importance to good management conduct than profitable conduct (Rozuel & Kakabadse, 2011). Rozuel and Kakabadse (2011) proposed that today corporations need to shift from the goal of maximizing shareholder value towards the goal of producing goods and services that increase value to society.…”

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“…Moral misconduct is still taking place in corporations and business scandals seem to replicate despite the various discussions about business ethics and its importance in increasing sustainable development and despite ample vigorous lobbying to include stakeholders' issues into strategic management and to give more importance to good management conduct than profitable conduct (Rozuel & Kakabadse, 2011). Rozuel and Kakabadse (2011) proposed that today corporations need to shift from the goal of maximizing shareholder value towards the goal of producing goods and services that increase value to society. This is because the corporate goal of maximizing shareholder value leads to stockholder value, exploitation in realizing stockholder value, progressively diverged society of very wealthy and very poor, and market constraints (Kakabadse & Kakabadse, 2010).…”

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“…This is because the corporate goal of maximizing shareholder value leads to stockholder value, exploitation in realizing stockholder value, progressively diverged society of very wealthy and very poor, and market constraints (Kakabadse & Kakabadse, 2010). Whereas the corporate goal of producing goods and services that increase value to society leads to offering goods/services which are important, essential, and affordable to consumers, maximizing stockholder value, reducing exploitation whereby managers are not encouraged to act illegitimately and/or immorally only to maximize stockholder value, having less diverged society, and reaching equilibrium between market and non-market forces (Rozuel & Kakabadse, 2011). Schermerhorn (2005) made use of Carroll's (1979) intellectual work and mentioned four responsibilities of companies; a company is economically responsible when it makes profits by selling products and services that consumers desire, a firm is legally responsible when it conducts business within the laws and requests of several external rules, a business is ethically responsible when it voluntarily acts in ways that meet the values and ethical expectations of society, and a corporation's highest level of social responsibility is whenever it voluntarily leads the way to improve society's welfare and go beyond legal, economic, and ethical obligations.…”

Section: Organizational Needs -Csr At the Meso Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The ethics of care as a determinant for stakeholder inclusion and CSR perception in business education

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Managerial Ethics as a Prerequisite to CSR: The Person Behind the Role

Cited by 7 publications

References 46 publications

Am I Expected to Be Ethical? A Role-Definition Perspective of Ethical Leadership and Unethical Behavior

Am I Expected to Be Ethical? A Role-Definition Perspective of Ethical Leadership and Unethical Behavior

Corporate Social Responsibility in Multinational Companies Based in Lebanon: Exploring the Role of Managers’ Individual and Situational Factors in Institutionalizing CSR

The ethics of care as a determinant for stakeholder inclusion and CSR perception in business education

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